Introducing: New Orleans street magician Jude Dubuisson, whose magical talent for finding lost things was disrupted by Hurricane Katrina. Can he recover his abilities in time to solve the murder of a god?

Series alert:The City of Lost Fortunes is the 1st of the Crescent City novels.

You might also like: Suzanne Johnson's Sentinels of New Orleans, another intricately plotted urban fantasy series set in the Big Easy.

About the author: Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu is the author of the Dandelion Dynasty historical fantasy series as well as the translator of Cixin Liu's SF epic The Three-Body Problem and its sequels.

Don't miss: "The Paper Menagerie," which explores the complicated relationship between a Chinese-American boy and his immigrant mother; "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," about wartime atrocities.

What it's about: Rogues! Who, according to anthology editor George R.R. Martin, "go by many names, and...turn up in stories of all sorts, in every genre under the sun."

Contains: 21 original stories by a powerhouse roster of writers, including both genre stalwarts (such as Patrick Rothfuss and Connie Willis) and authors best known for their work in other areas (including Gillian Flynn and Steven Saylor).

What it is: a collection of interlinked short stories narrated by the wives and girlfriends of superheroes.

Why "refrigerator"? Comics writer Gail Simone coined the term "Women in Refrigerators" to refer to plotlines in which female characters suffer horrific fates for the sake of male character development.

Want a taste? "Origin stories are like birthday parties: very exciting and colorful and noisy, but in the end, they're all the same."